Ousted during a bleed

When declaring a default bleed, are you declaring a bleed directed at a specific methuselah or at "my prey, whoever that may be when the bleed resolves"?

Consider:
Meth A bleeds Meth B (at 1 pool) with a minion.
Meth B tries to block with something.
Meth A plays True Love's Face.
Meth B hates life and chooses to oust himself by burning a pool to cancel the card.

Does that action fizzle? Does the bleed fall through to Meth B's prey?

Can Meth A play a Freak Drive?

True Love's Face
Only usable when a minion attempts to block. That block fails (do not tap that minion). That minion cannot attempt to block this action again. That minion's controller may burn a pool to cancel this card as it is played.

Freak Drive
Only usable at the end of a successful action (after resolving the action). This vampire untaps.
As above, but usable even if the action is blocked (play after combat, if any).

I'm thinking that you have to declare a bleed against a specific target. The action fizzles (unsuccessfully and unblocked) when Meth B is ousted before the bleed resolves. Freak Drive can not be played.

I would say action will fizzle (no valid target). Rules: "By default, your minion's bleed actions can be directed only at your prey." Action is successful (was not blocked). Compare to This

Most of the answers can be found here: [LSJ 20090122] (note that LSJ got the FD part wrong in his first answer)

Miasmat wrote:

When declaring a default bleed, are you declaring a bleed directed at a specific methuselah or at "my prey, whoever that may be when the bleed resolves"?

Against a specific Methuselah (who is your prey at the moment the bleed is declared).

Miasmat wrote:

Consider:
Meth A bleeds Meth B (at 1 pool) with a minion.
Meth B tries to block with something.
Meth A plays True Love's Face.
Meth B hates life and chooses to oust himself by burning a pool to cancel the card.

Does that action fizzle? Does the bleed fall through to Meth B's prey?

The bleed doesn't land on the target's prey (think of what would happen when you bleed your predator with Kindred Spirits). It fizzles if it reaches resolution unblocked.

Miasmat wrote:

Can Meth A play a Freak Drive?

Sure. The action was successful.

Miasmat wrote:

I'm thinking that you have to declare a bleed against a specific target. The action fizzles (unsuccessfully and unblocked) when Meth B is ousted before the bleed resolves. Freak Drive can not be played.

Freak Drive is playable on successful actions. A fizzling action is successful. Ergo, Freak Drive is playable on a fizzling action (such as bleeding an ousted Methuselah, for instance).

Surreal wrote:

Compare to This

Yeah, that's the post that got me thinking about it.

What I didn't realize is that a fizzled action is successful. No pool was burned, so it's not a successful bleed, right?

Succesful action and succesful bleed are two different things. Like for example, if your bleed is reduced to 0 with telepathic counter its not a succesful bleed, but the action was still succesful (assuming it wasn't blocked)